satansbartender

And they were profitable in 2020 and 2021, what's your point?

Companies lose money sometimes

I think the stream to own MP3 like you just downloaded from Bandcamp or something definitely has to be the model from the start. Then they can tweak it from there.

Square is owned by Block Inc who is a publicly traded company. They made $190m net profit in Q1 2025

It almost certainly wasnt the card brands forcing the issue. They outsource that stuff to payment processors and other middle men because it's cheaper and gives them some legal shielding if someone buys something illegal with their cards

That's not quite true.

There are several layers between point of sale and the card brands and each layer is generally an independent company. Each of those companies makes or sells hardware and/or software that is used by the companies lower in the chain.

Square takes up several of these layers at once and charges much higher fees than other processors. The high fees and massive market coverage is why they exist, not because they're chewing through VC funds still.

I think that's all fair.

I was really interested in the idea of using it as a way of growing my offline and/or self hosted collection. Fair compensation for artists while still being able to have good new music discovery and grow my library at the same time would be really cool.

Still to be seen if they can manage, to your point, but I'll hold out a little hope until they lose their goodwill

I guess it depends on how much new music is released, added to the library, and then streamed by the users. It's a valid concern to be sure, but I wonder if it could be offset by user growth and new music to be a non issue

Spheal!

I missed CachyOS in my perusing, this looks nice too! I'll have to check into it more, thanks!

Yeah pretty much all my apps have flatpaks which is nice. I haven't messed with arch based yet so AUR will be new to me

First time I've heard of that podcast and it sounds interesting. Is there a season that touches on it more than others or is it just an overarching theme throughout the different seasons and revolutions covered?

Second this. Been working with flutter and dart professionally for awhile now and it's great